Wishful Thinking: NYT Claims Thai Protesters are in "Retreat"

In August of 2013, businessman and  outspoken Thaksin opponent   Ekkayuth Anchanbutr  was  abducted and murdered .  This does not include more recent events, which also includes  attempted and successful assassinations  targeting Thaksin Shinawatra’s enemies, and  a campaign of increasing terrorism  being employed against growing dissent in the streets railing against his regime symbolically led by his own sister, Yingluck Shinawatra.  It is easy to see why the West, despite the unraveling of the regime in recent months, is still stalwartly defending it, particularly in the editorials and columns of their newspapers – the West has invested a decade propping it up and is unlikely to find another political machine as effective and as willing to divide, destroy, and attempt to wholesale handover the resources and sovereignty of Thailand to foreign interests.  It is this that brings us articles like the New York Times’ recent piece titled, " Protesters Say They’ll End Blockades in Bangkok ," by the biased and wholly inaccurate Thomas Fuller. He claimed in the article that:  In what appeared to be a major retreat by the movement to overthrow the Thai government, protesters on Friday said they were abandoning their campaign to shut down Bangkok and would dismantle their blockades of major intersections set up in January

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Wishful Thinking: NYT Claims Thai Protesters are in "Retreat"